Clarion 1969-09-19 Vol 45 No 03

Vol. XLIV—No. 3
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, September 19, 1969
Speakers emphasize communication
It happens tonight
Moods is a groove
by Marjorie Rusche
Have you been seeing little red
dots lately? Don't despair. The
dots herald the first big campus
social bash of the year, "Moods."
It's happening in the iFeldhouse
this Friday night at 8:00. And it's
free, free, free.
The organizers of the program
are Linda Sparks and Jan Hurt.
They aim to create as many moods
as nossible while presenting a
good quality program. Dan Johnson
and Mark Kingsbeck are handling
the technical end of things, and
Jeanne Hendrickson, in charge of
program and publicity, is responsi-ble
for the little red dots.
The moods of "Moods" will
range widely — folk, rock, pop,
a reader's theater, poetry, blues,
a slide presentation, and cinema
will be covered.
Jon Lundgren will set the stage
for the evening by playing piano
mood music from 7:30 to 8:00.
Then, selections will be performed
by: Jane Alquist, blues; Dave
Shupe, folk song; Bonnie Schoen-felder,
Kris Froelich, Jon Nord-strom,
Tom Carlson, Peter, Paul
and Mary, folk; Laurel Toy, Faye
Kulbitski, Ken Fischer, Jon Nord-strom,
reader's theater; Marge Er-ickson,
Woody Smith, Julie Palen,
Hugh McCloud, reader's theater;
Dave Waite, acc. Pete Hanson,
pop; Denny Olsen, Dean Oberg,
Mike Glewwe, Doug Meyer, rock;
Gail Nelson, poetry; Gail Guthrie,
poetry, Bo Conrad, Spit Band; Bev
Pearson, piano solo; R. C. Nelson,
slide presentation; "Toys", film.
Come to "Moods." The program
liiks great. For freshmen, it's a
good introduction to campus social
life. For upperclassmen, it's a
great opportunity to see o 1 d
friends, make new ones.
by Jack Campbell
A five man team of specialized
laymen will be in charge of chapel
from Sept. 22-26 for Deeper Life
Week.
According to pastor Lawson this
year's special services will be gear-ed
to a different level than in the
past. It has been tradition to bring
in an evangelist or speaker and
let him present his ideas of what
Christianity is all about or to
delve into some basic concepts.
However, the men to speak this
year are headed by a research
physicist from Stanford Dr. Lam-bert
Dolphin. Dr. Dolphin is well
known on the west coast as a
speaker for men's groups. Pastor
The main emphasis this year will
not be on the chapel services but
on informal discussion groups in
dorms and classrooms. These dis-cussions
will be led by Dr. Dolphin
and his associates, who include Ted Next week's chapel schedule will
Wise, "hippie convert" from the not be one to miss for any reason.
West Coast, Bill McKenzie, a land Also remember that these men
developer from Texas, Mr. George have come for us and it is not
Alban, a business man from San often that such an all-star cast is
Diego, and Ron Kline, Dean of available. If you see one of them
Men at Azuza-Pacific college in running around, ask him to take
Southern California. five and rap a while.
WBCS broadcasting
resumes Wednesday
Bethel's radio station plans to Along with the regular news de-resume
broadcasting Wednesday partment, two mobile units will
morning, September 24, at 6:30 be added in order to more effec-
A.M. to kick off the 1969-70 school tively cover the news in the Bethel
year. The broadcast day will run area.
from 6:30 A.M. until 12 midnight,
Monday through Friday, and from
9 A.M. until 9 P.M. Saturday. WBCS
is located at 1050 KC. (AM)
The new year will also briig a
new type of programming, design-ed
to entertain and stimulate. Mu-sic
will range from semi-classical The station will be constantly
to light rock. Also included will be receptive to any suggestions stu-various
discussions, debates, and dents may have. Contact Mark
other talk shows. Kinksbeck or call WBCS.
Lawson added that Dr. Dolphin "These men are coming, not as
has "experimented with LSD" on authorities with answers, but ra-a
personal level and has written ther emphasizing communication
a book called "The Journey In- and exchange of ideas," Lawson
ward." stressed. They hope to do this
even more so by lodging in Edgren
in the rooms of the R.A.'s. Pastor
Lawson related further that the
men were taking their own va-cation
time to be with us.
Admissions innovates with recruitment plans
The sports department will be
broadcasting all Bethel basketball
games this year. Along with this,
a short sports summary will be
presented in conjunction with the
news.
'My Fair Lady' banquet theme
promotes big-little sis Friendship
The fact that Admissions and
Financial Aids now resides at 1540
North Snelling is hardly news, but
the total implication of the move
is not evident in a simple state-ment
of fact.
Mr. James Bragg, former finan-cial
aids advisor, present head of
the new consolidated departments
of Financial Aids and Admissions
related that the reason for merg-ing
the two was an attempt to
regroup functions that are more
closely related. Bragg expressed the
hope that through the consolida-tion,
his department would find
it easier to "keep in touch with
students after they arrived at Beth-el."
This wish to remain in contact
with students after their arrival
on campus is part of a larger at-tempt
to update Bethel's recruiting
methods. Bragg stated that he
wanted to find out whether the
students felt that they had receiv-ed
a realistic picture of Bethel
before they came.
"Many students are recruited by
their pastors or alumni," Bragg
said, and do not receive an up-to-date
account of what Bethel is real-ly
like. The college changes from
year to year so that even a grad-uate
of two years ago would not
be able to accurately relate what
Bethel is."
To correct this situation, the
department is coordinating its ef-forts
to update the materials which
are mailed out. It is working with
alumni in sponsoring Focus on
Bethel programs in Conference
churches.
Bragg stated that up until Feb-ruary
1, 1969, when Bob Crandall
was added to the admissions office
staff, the recruiting had been left
mainly to alumni and Conference
pastors. "We have benefitted from
an unusually loyal alumni." Bragg
said, telling of another area col-lege
which had four recruiters and
had recruited only fifty more stu-dents
than Bethel.
In spite of the alumni, however,
the number of applications was
65 behind that of the year before
when Crandall came to the office.
The 1969 enrollment ended up
being higher than ever.
Bragg also mentioned that Beth-el
was planning to change its at-titude
towards junior colleges,
viewing them more as a feeder
system than a threat. Although
Bethel's retention rate is higher
than the national average, the di-rector
of Financial aids and Admis-sions
sees this as an area in
need of improvement also.
"My Fair Lady" is the theme of
the Big-little sis banquet to be
held Tues. the 23rd in Dayton's
Sky Room. The purpose of the
banquet, according to one of the
organisers of the banquet, Sharron
Eisfeld, is "to promote and
strengthen relations between Beth-el
women".
Tickets are on sale until 3:30
Tues. at $3.50 per ticket. The big
and little sis's will sit together at
the banquet. Big sis's are re-sponsible
for seeing that their
little sis gets to the banquet and
back safely. Cars and buses will
leave from Bodien between 5:00
and 5:15.
Entertainment will be provided
by Carmen Sheppard and Miss
Mary Fall. A short speech will be
given by Sharron Eisfeld.
Others that have worked with
the banquet are Cheryl Cue, Bon-nie
Craft, Karen Rodberg, P a t
Chase, Bev Grant, Lois Rahn and
Dean Starr.
Come to the banquet. Big sis's
bring your little sis and enjoy
yourself.
`Turn-on Night' oversell turns many off
by Dave Greener and Joey Healy
Time Magazine covered the Con-gress.
Other national magazines
were there. And, amidst hundreds
of young people at last Friday
night's "Turn On," were two repre-sentatives
of Bethel's own Clarion.
That the buses to the event
were overcrowded is obvious un-derstatement.
But the packed con-ditions
of the two vehicles was
far surpassed by the crowd of
people waiting to get into the
Minneapolis Armory for the ev-ening
program. Over ten thou-sand
people crowded their way
into the building but another eight
thousand-plus could not be ac-comodated.
These eight thousand
were sent instead to the Auditor-ium
Convention Center, a f e w
blocks away. The contingent from
Bethel's second bus numbered a-mong
these not over-happy wan-derers.
A video setup awaited people
as they made their way into the
Auditorium. The screen was not
over-large, the sound was not over-loud,
and the video itself could
have been improved. All this for
hundreds of young people who
had hoped to see a "live" program.
About 10:30 it was announced
over the video that there would be
an attempt to send some of the
live performers to the Auditorium.
This announcement, of course, was
applauded by the audience. Most
of them were not enthused about
the prior arrangements.
"I'm extremely disappointed,"
said one young person. "There
was too little planning." As an-other
put it, "I think they
shouldn't have sold tickets for peo-ple
they didn't have room for.
I'm not horribly disappointed, but
some of the kids are. Yes, I'm going
to get my money back!"
Similar disappointment and/or
boredom was manifest in t h e
crowd. A few paper airplanes fil-tered
to the floor. Applause seemed
unnaturally, loud; it was perhaps
sounded less in appreciation than
for other reasons. In some quarters
there was disgust and even a little
Members of the rock group 'Sun' practice for 'Moods' cont'd on page 3
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
MEW
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the CLAROIN Friday, September 19, 1969
Lundquist report causes
optimism, puzzlement
Editor's Note: When I returned to school late this summer,
I ran into an old friend who suggested that I get and read a copy
of the Annual Report of the President. The report left me optimistic
but puzzled.
The President built a beautiful case for the "'youth revolt in
America". "The youth revolt of our day," he stated, "is a protest against
the dehumanization of man in a world of science . . . It is a protest
against the conquest of new worlds without resolving the problems
of the old one . . . It is raised not only against the technological
machine, but against the political machine, the military machine, the
industrial machine, the educational machine, the ecclesiastical machine.
The youth revolt," he stated, "is part of a world wide social revolution."
The president also said that although there had not been a single
riot on an evangelical campus last year that this fact did not mean "the
absence of keen feelings" but was due in part to selective admissions
and the Christian graces of our students. In fact, "It is only right that
thoughtful Christian youth be sensitive to these issues even more than
other people."
"The notes I hear," he continued, "are the insistence that every
human being is a person of importance and worth; that material
security ought not have the highest priority in life; that love ought
to characterize all of our interpersonal relationships; that right ideals
are worth suffering for; that honesty should characterize our actions;
that unconventional methods may open exciting new doors into the
future; and that whatever ought to be done ought to be done now.
"It is at this point that Christians have something in common with
the youth of the revolt movement. These ideals have been held by
Christians for centuries but sometimes have been lost to sight. Sud-denly
they are being sounded dramatically in a variety of strange places."
Later in his address the President lists eight general principles
by which Christian youth and students at Bethel should guide their
behavior. "The application of these principles has led to the identifica-tion
of some social practices which are viewed as detrimental to the
common good at Bethel. I might indicate that violation of these social
standards at Bethel usually results in appropriate disciplinary action."
(And I might add that he is right.)
If the youth revolt is a world wide social revolution, and the
violation of social standards is followed by appropriate disciplinary
action, it is reasonable to doubt whether the social revolution defended
by the president will ever come out of the shadows on evangelical cam-puses.
Social change and legalistic social standards constitute incompatible
goals.
Artist Series
tickets on sale
Tickets for several interesting
artist series in the Twin Cities
area are available at the present
time. Although 'most of the series
tickets are expensive, some of them
are reasonable. The concerts them-selves
promise to be of good quali-ty.
Two particularly promising ser-ies
— as far as high quality, rea-sonable
cost, and close location are
concerned — are the St. Paul Ser-ies
and the "Explorations 70" Ser-ies.
The St. Paul Series, sponsored
by the full Minnesota Orchestra,
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski director,
occur Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. at
the College of St. Catherine Fine
Arts Center. A ticket series for
the balcony is $20 or $28 for 10
concerts consisting of primarily
classical music.
"Explorations 70", a series of
five concerts for people with ad-venturous
tastes in music, will be
presented by the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra at the Janet Wallace
Fine Arts Center on the Macalester
College campus. The series, sched-uled
for Saturday evenings at 8:30
p.m., will open on October 18.
The other four concerts will be
presented Dec. 20, Jan. 3, Feb. 28
and April 4.
The concerts will feature works
by at least a dozen twentieth cen-tury
composers, including three
compositions specially commission-ed
by the Chamber Orchestra.
Tickets for this contemporary ser-ious
music series are priced at
$16 and $11.
If you'd like to attend these or
other concert series but the prices
seem a little steep, find another
culturally minded person who
would split the cost of a series
with you. It's worth it.
For further information on tick-ets
contact Mr. Whitinger in the
Music Office.
but nothing will
happen untilwe
pause to flame'
by Dave Shupe
Some days ago, I asked Pat if
I could write again about the
"Bethel College scene." After half-baking
many articles of my own,
I discovered that what I wished
to say had been' said already. and
better — if not perfectly — by a
contemporary poet, William Staf-ford.
NEAR
Talking along in this not quite
prose way
we all know it is not quite prose
we speak,
and it is time to notice this
intolerable snow
innumerably touching, before we
sink.
It is time to notice, I say, the
freezing snow
hesitating toward us from other's
grey heaven;
listen—it is falling not quite
silently
and under it still you and I are
walking.
Maybe there are trumpets in the
houses we pass
and a redbird watching from an
evergreen—
but nothing will happen until we
pause
to flame what we know, before any
signal's given.
the white man has done to rob
the black of his dignity and sense
of identity.
We as Christians have something
to learn from the hips and the
blacks. Something we should have
been spreading around a long, long
time ago. That is soul, man, soul.
The importance and ecstacy of now.
The utter sense of joy and exhilara-tion
that comes from being able to
transcend our own sordid natures
and this world's sordid reality
through Christ's love and involve-ment
in us and our love and in-volvement
in other people.
Evangelicals are unfortunately
stereotyped by "the world" as be-ing
bigoted, boring, straight-laced
sourpusses. I must say the descrip- .
tion does apply to more "Chris-tians"
than I'd like to admit.
Christ came that we might have
life, and have it more abundantly.
Do you realize what this means?
Are you living, being, experiencing
up to your potential? We have the
key to the most fullfilling and re-warding
life. Aren't we squander-ing
it by consciously or subcon-sciously
limiting ourselves to the
antedated and sterilized forms of
worship, conventional forms of
dress, hollow forms of greeting
and communication? What a pity
and what a waste to have a staid
and stereotyped form of life with
no room for spontenaity and crea-tivity.
Think and feel. Feel and think.
Interlocked and vital for life. Ne-glect
leads to death.
Begin to live your vision.
Marjorie Rusche
fax
Eax, the Old English word for axis, is the name of a new column
that will appear weekly in the Clarion. The focus for this column will be
the problems, both foreign and domestic, that face our nation and our
society. Eax, to be more precise, will be a presentation of facts that
are vital to understanding such complex problems as the Vietnam war,
poverty, racism, crime, and unemployment.
These problems, and many others are the subject of much discussion
in contemporary America. They cry out for solution. But the bulk of
adult Americans today are complacent and even a bit defensive about
the status quo.
It is particularly important that the college-educated be prepared
to think in terms of solutions to the problems that face us. Today the
college-educated segment of our society is the fastest growing portion
of our population. But a college degree does not assure a concern in
the future of our society and nation. We must learn to put aside apathy
and the false security of complacency in order to understand the
problems of America.
This, then, is the purpose of Eax: to inform and stimulate thought
that will build the potential to solve problems. Americans can no
longer "let the government do it." They must become full partners with
their leaders as they meet and seek to solve the problems that loom larger
every day.
The growth of racism in America
Race riots are the most frightening outgrowth of racism to the
middle class American. This is perhaps true because riots threaten
the sanctity of private property — the idol of the American property
owner. But such riots are not racist themselves. They are the predictable
expression of the hatred bred in Blacks by that towering monster—
White Racism.
Ever since the first boatload of Blacks arrived in Jamestown in
1619, an attitude has grown in this country. That attitude, the "basic
inferiority" of the Negro, was a gradual product of various factors,
economic and others.
There was indeed a need for cheap labor in the young tobacco
industry of the Virginia Colony. The most desirable labor source was
Africa. The Negro was able to work long hours in the hot sun due to
his conditioning in the tropics. Without Black labor the colony could
not grow its cash crop, tobacco, which meant that the colony would fail
and probably have to withdraw to England. Though it is not certain
that the first shipload of Blacks came as slaves, it is known that within
a few years slaveholding was widespread in Virginia.
In later years the addition of cotton to American agricultural products
brought an increased demand for slaves.
At this point, over a century before the nation began to press for
its independence from England, white racism had its start. The Negro
and slavery were essential to Southern Agriculture. In search of a moral
justification for slaveholding, Southern landowners began the philoso-phy
of White Supremacy. They envisaged themselves as saving the
Blacks from the bleak existence of African tribesmen. White society,
and white man, himself, was held superior to Blacks.
The actual behavior of slaveowners was not universally bad. Some
owners treated their slaves rather as employees. But racism had gained
its foothold in the white mentality. In the process of socialization,
children learned to hold Blacks in low esteem, even to hate or fear them.
Even after the Civil War the attitude of racism prevailed. In the
South this was mixed with bitterness and despair. Even after the
instrument that degraded the Blacks had been destroyed, the racist
attitude it generated continued and hardened in both the North and
South.
The effort to defeat racism is a war in the hearts and minds of
men. It is a much more difficult and significant war than the one that
split this nation over a century ago. Today, one hundred and four years
after Appomattox, the Black American is still not a full citizen.
The National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, in its report
to the President and the American People held white racism as the
underlying cause of Black rioting. The next article in this series on
racism deals with the extend of racism in America today.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Pat Faxon
News Editor Marjorie Rusche
Sports Editor Wally Borner
Copy Editor Tony Magnuson
Layout Editor Sue Bonstrom
Proofreader Karen Rodberg
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Photographer Ray Smith
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
To the editor—
I, along with many others, was
excited over Dean Olson's speech
in chapel Sept. 12; his professed
concern and desire for renewal of
the mind both individually and
communally. How it needed to be
said — the vision of the Holy Spirit
as a quickening flame sending
sparks of intellectual awareness
and vitality throughout a whole
college community — particularly
the Bethel College community.
Agreed. It is absolutely essential
that an educated individual know
how to think, 'be it analytically,
critically, or creatively. We need
this tremendous desire to keep
not apace but ahead of what's
happening, we are burdened and
blessed with the moral responsi-bility
to provide leadership in the
still-more-turbulent times to come.
However, a truly educated man
or woman not only thinks, he or
she feels, experiences, is. The art
of being must be just as carefully
developed as the art of thinking.
Indeed, it's more difficult.
"Being" is the thing that the
"hippie" culture focuses on. Be
yourself. Do your thing. Groove
with the elements — and the
chemicals. Turned off by the plas-ticity,
sterility, and conformity of
American life, "hippies" turn on
to love, giving, sharing, the experi-ence
of now. The whole emphasis
is to find yourself in and through
other people.
The blacks are developing a
sense of brotherhood, soul, group
solidarity — which is a tremendous
accomplishment considering what
BETHEL FORUM
Olson draws reaction
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in particular. Last week's
Clarion reported Mrs. Ross from
Northwestern University instead
of Northwestern College. Mrs.
Carol Hansen, not Mrs. Carol
Christensen, is the new refer-ence
librarian.
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Festival Choir
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40. Friday, September 19, 1969
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‘Tum-on' oversell
Although not all of these people were in the original cast,
the above reenactment resembles the scene last Friday nite
when over 5 score Bethelites turned out for 'Turn-on.'
Rehearsals for the biggest mu-sical
events of the semester, Fes-tival
of Christmas, began Thursday.
The specific group practicing was
the Festival Choir, which consists
of the Womens' Choir, Male Chor-us,
College Choir, and other staff,
faculty, and students interested in
participating.
You can still audition if you are
interested in participating in Fes-tival
Choir. Mr. Whitinger, located
in the lower level of the Colegle
Building, is in charge of the audi-tions.
The Festival of Christmas will
be held Dec. 12th, 13th, and 14th
in the Fieldhouse. The program
will be announced at a later date.
by Dave Greener
Student publications at Bethel,
were recently bolstered by the ap-pointment
of an advisor whose
credentials are numerous.
Mark Olson, a second-year stu-dent
at Bethel Seminary has as-sumed
the task of "Advisor to
Student Publications" for t h e
school year 1969-70. In this posi-tion,
it will be Olson's job to
fulfill such functions as making
suggestions and having discussions
with publications editors, evaluat-ing
their staffs' work, and perhaps
conducting workshops with staff
members.
summers as an editorial assistant
for Harvest Publications and cur-rently
he is editor of the Bethel
Seminary newspaper, Diakrisis. He
tentatively plans graduate work in
Christian Journalism after his grad-uation
from Seminary.
Mark feels that "publications
at Bethel have been fairly good—
particularly the Clarion," although
he adds that he thinks "there
could be further improvements."
Although he sees his role as
purely advisory—not as a worker
or as an editor — Olson says he
"would like to see the Spire and
the Clarion have a more important
place on the campus." As he says,
"I think that well-produced publi-cations
can add significantly to
the overall quality of the campus
life."
As for the Clarion in particular,
it is Olson's hope that "the Clarion
could have a wider-ranging, more
penetrating news coverage as well
as careful editorial comment on
issues significant to the students."
While attempting to achieve
such goals and going to Seminary
Mark will have an additional re-sponsibilty
this school year. As of
this summer, he is a newlywed.
Mark and the new Mrs. Olson
reside at the Seminary Apartments
in Arden Hills.
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anger. And why shouldn't there
be all of these phenomena?
As a pastor who had brought
young people from Eden Prairie
said, ". . . Poor arrangements were
made. The whole thing should have
been in the auditorium, instead of
bothering with the armory. (note:
this would have presented prob-lems
too.) I'm very disappointed.
But they are trying to deal with
the problem; this is much appre-ciated,
of course."
Why had there been an oversell?
"We couldn't ask young people
to come into town to buy all the
tickets," said Dr. Victor Nelson,
executive secretary of the Con-gress.
"We can't release the exact
number of tickets, because then
there is a possibility of an under-sell."
As Reverend Paul Fryhling,
Chairman of the Executive Com-mittee
revealed, We distributed
tickets through 200 youth groups.
We didn't want them to be short."
He explained that their purpose
wasn't to make money. They didn't
want to keep people out and had
gotten the largest facilities they
could. (The Met Sports Center was
"out" because of a Twins game at
the nearby Stadium.) Performers
had been at high school assemblies
around the Twin Cities, and Fryh-ling
himself "believed all the while
that it would sell out the place."
Yet it was a "one-shot" thing and
accurate predictions had not been
made. Fryhling did state that the
"audience had been great and very
cooperative." He also had praise
for the "great effort on the part
of these kids (the performers) "who
made their way from the Armory
to the Auditorium."
Among the first of these was the
Kinsfolk from Australia. Currently
operating with Billy Graham, they
usually perform in coffee houses
with an "intimate, more folky
setup."
Another group who was "live"
at the Auditorium was The Earth-rise
Singers, who were also at
Bethel last week.
Bill McKee, noted speaker for
high school assemblies, had words
for the youth at the Auditorium.
Spicing up his message with hu-mor,
McKee brought out the idea
of Christ as "The Answer" to many
of the youth's problems.
Finally Pat Boone arrived, but
without an orchestra. Pat didn't
sing, he did give his testimoy, say-ing
that until recently his career
had been one thing that had kept
him from a proper relationship
with God and that he had had to
be ready to give it up if that's
what God wanted.
During the evening — amidst
some confusion and much over-selling
— Dr. Nelson could say
about the program, "We think it
shows that young people are in-terested
in something that is in
their wavelength, communicates to
them, and has answers to some of
their problems."
Publications receive new advisor
Olson, who has had much experi-ence
with newspapers, yearbooks,
and other publications, graduated
from Wheaton College in 1968 with
a B.A. in the social sciences. At
Wheaton, he worked for the col-lege
newspaper for three years,
fulfilling various responsibilities,
including that of managing editor
his final year. He was also on the
yearbook staff for a year, during
which he served as editor-in-chief.
He took on similar positions during
high school days.
Olson, originally from the "Land
of Lincoln" (he is a native of Wau-kegon,
Illinois), is interested in
a career of Christian journalism.
He has already worked several
African Singers
coming on tour
From the Baptist Teacher Train-ing
College and Saker Baptist
College come nineteen students
who compose "The College Sing-ers"
of Cameroon. Missionary Don-ald
E. Witt, principal of Saker
Baptist College, is their director.
"The College Singers" will be
touring the United States and Can-ada
from Sept. 3 to Nov. 24.
They will begin in New York and
go across the northern part of the
United States, into Ontario, Cana-da,
the Dakotas, then to Winni-peg,
Manitoba, and across Canada
to Vancouver, British Columbia.
From there the Singers will travel
down the west coast to Southern
California, eastward into Texas and
up through Oklahoma and Kansas
and on to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and Cleveland, Ohio. In all, about
60 concerts will be given.
The College Singers will appear
in Minneapolis, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m.
They will be performing at the
First Baptist Church, 10th and Har-mon.
There is no admission fee,
but a free will offering will be
taken.
The group is sponsored by the
North American Baptist General
Conference, Forest Park, Illinois.
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Scots hand Royals first loss
At the start of the game, Bethel
was optimistically looking for a
win. Macalester was supposed to
have a team weakened by the loss
of many seniors. Our boys, though
not numerous, had a great atti-tude
going for them.
Bethel received. This fact in it-self
was a confidence builder be-cause
we knew we had a good of-fense.
After three line smashes,
Fred Swedberg got a beautiful
punt down field, but the coverage
just wasn't there. Macalester ran
the punt back, got good field posi-tion
and took the ball in from
there. This was the story on the
first three Mac TD's.
After five Macalester touchdowns
and a few evtra points Bethel
got rolling. Murray Sitte opened
the game up, combining on some
fine pass plays with Don Brandsma,
Dave Pound, and finally John Pet-erson
for the score. Brandsma made
some fine catches even though
Mac's coverage was good.
On the extra point attempt, both
our blocking and kick failed. The
half ended with the score 33-6.
Since we had scored, things were
beginning to look up. Even though
Mac was stopping our backs, Barry
Anderson and Bob Olson, the pas-sing
game was moving nicely.
The second half started with the
fans expecting to see Bethel come
back with a vengeance in the
form of a passing attack. However,
Macalester had adjusted their pass
defense well, and we were stifled
there too. Then Sitte, the starting
quarterback, was injured (he had
40 stitches taken in his chin) and
replaced by back-up quarterback
Gary Hasselblad. Gary had not
played football since high school
four years ago and has only recent-ly
come out for football at Bethel.
He is a fine competitor with a
cool head, but was too inexperien-ced
to be effective. Even so, he
put in quite a performance, and
kept the fans on the edge of
their chairs with his scrambling
and passing. The game ended with
Bethel on the short end of the
score, 56-6.
Macalester was bigger, had a fine
quarterback, and some great backs.
The plain facts are that we got
beaten badly. There were a few
bright spots, however — Sitte's
passing, Peterson's, Pound's and
Brandsma's catching, Anderson's
running, and Jack Campbell's fists.
Also, when the newer members of
the team get more game experience
we can expect some great games
from a fine bunch of athletes.
Soccer team begins third season with a new coach
and a promising team.
Seddefte Symposium
Wally Borner
I wasn't there. I was moving into my new apartment so
I wasn't able to see the Bethel-Macalester football tilt. However,
I heard that Bethel teams have looked worse. But with 25
guys, what are you supposed to do. There were 33 on the team
at one time and some were lost to injuries and I sure hope
that some weren't lost due to a lack of intestinal fortitude.
Years ago Macalester had a similar problem. They used
to switch helmets whenever they sent in a substitution. They
had a game against Gustavus once when the Gusties made the
trip to St. Paul with 55 players. Mac had only 22. Can you
guess what the score was at half time? Macalester led 7-0.
I'm not knocking our team, but saying that we shouldn't
give up yet. The guys that are still playing had the opportunity
to call it quits when only 23 fellows showed up for football
camp. They could have said that it wouldn't be worth the
effort to go into games with the likes of Macalester and Hamline
and get dumped by some humiliating score.
More than ever, this handful of men needs to know that
the college community is behind them. Give them a pat on the
back or a word of encouragement and maybe they'll get so
much enthusiasm and adrenalin flowing, they'll come up with
a victory or two. The ball players will have to gut out the
season. I don't think it would be fair for us to sit back and
pretend that they don't eve*n *ex i*st .
Our home town Vikes did O.K. in the pre-season as they
rolled up five wins and one loss. I don't know how they did
it because everybody tells me they don't have a good quarter-back.
They don't have a quarterback like everybody said the
Twins didn't have a pitching staff.
Anyway, the Vikings will have a rough time. The central
division has four teams that are as close to even as you could
want. It looks like the winner will be lucky to end up with nine
wins. That winner will have to be the one getting the breaks.
It just can't be worth while to predict any finish, not even with
my Viking prejudice.
It should be an exciting year. Baltimore is so loaded with
charismatic stars that they should be able to hypnotize their
opponents into giving them the top spot. I don't think Joe
Namath would be able to stop them when the chips are really
down.
Baltimore didn't have too hard a time beating the Dallas
Cowboys last Sunday night. But Roger Staubach, filling in at
quarterback for the Cowboys, put on a scrambling exhibition
that would dilate the pupils of Fran Tarkenton. With that kind
of exhibition after being out of football for a while, it will be
interesting to see him when he gets a season or two under
his belt. * * *
Well sports fans, this is good-bye. It's come to the point
where I must turn over my mantle to someone else. I've greatly
appreciated your comments, criticism, and compliments.
Page 4 the CLARION
Friday, September 19, 1969
Soccer team travels to Owatonna
to begin season against Pillsbury
Murray Sitte received 40
day game with Macalester.
stitches as a result of Satur-
Bethel's fledgling soccer team
will be traveling to Owatonna Sat-urday
morning for a 10:00 game
against Pillsbury College. The Roy-als
will be out to avenge an open-ing
game loss to Pillsbury last
fall.
The squad has been practicing
regularly for two weeks and is in
considerably better condition than
last year. Also, a strong nucleus
from last year and some very ca-pable
freshmen should help build
the team into a strong, winning
squad.
Dr. Abraham has been coaching
and helping with the finer points
of the game as well as working on
the fundamentals with the less
experienced players.
The soccer teams offense will
center around Joe Goff, a fresh-man
from Massachusetts. Dan An-derson,
an M.K. from Brazil, will
team up with sophomore Lee Gran-lund
at the wing positions. Pete
Wicklund will be back as an inner
end. Transfer Jon Lewis will be
on at the inner position. All five
men are very experienced ball play-ers.
Dan Anderson must be spec-ially
noted for his dribbling skills.
Jon Nordstrom will be back in
the .gial. Supporting him at defense
will be fullback Jim Bussiere and
the versatile Jerry Jenfa. Ray
Smith will be center half with
veteran Tim Larson and freshman
Denny Peterson at the other half
back posts.
Doyle Musser and Wendell Wah-lin
are first year players and show
signs of becoming very capable
reserve players.
After the Pillsbury contest, the
team has upcoming engagements
with Bethany Lutheran of Mankato,
which will be played in St. Paul,
and with Trinity College which is
located in the Chicago area. Other
games will be scheduled with Mac-alester,
Concordia, Hamline, and
Augsburg.

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Vol. XLIV—No. 3
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, September 19, 1969
Speakers emphasize communication
It happens tonight
Moods is a groove
by Marjorie Rusche
Have you been seeing little red
dots lately? Don't despair. The
dots herald the first big campus
social bash of the year, "Moods."
It's happening in the iFeldhouse
this Friday night at 8:00. And it's
free, free, free.
The organizers of the program
are Linda Sparks and Jan Hurt.
They aim to create as many moods
as nossible while presenting a
good quality program. Dan Johnson
and Mark Kingsbeck are handling
the technical end of things, and
Jeanne Hendrickson, in charge of
program and publicity, is responsi-ble
for the little red dots.
The moods of "Moods" will
range widely — folk, rock, pop,
a reader's theater, poetry, blues,
a slide presentation, and cinema
will be covered.
Jon Lundgren will set the stage
for the evening by playing piano
mood music from 7:30 to 8:00.
Then, selections will be performed
by: Jane Alquist, blues; Dave
Shupe, folk song; Bonnie Schoen-felder,
Kris Froelich, Jon Nord-strom,
Tom Carlson, Peter, Paul
and Mary, folk; Laurel Toy, Faye
Kulbitski, Ken Fischer, Jon Nord-strom,
reader's theater; Marge Er-ickson,
Woody Smith, Julie Palen,
Hugh McCloud, reader's theater;
Dave Waite, acc. Pete Hanson,
pop; Denny Olsen, Dean Oberg,
Mike Glewwe, Doug Meyer, rock;
Gail Nelson, poetry; Gail Guthrie,
poetry, Bo Conrad, Spit Band; Bev
Pearson, piano solo; R. C. Nelson,
slide presentation; "Toys", film.
Come to "Moods." The program
liiks great. For freshmen, it's a
good introduction to campus social
life. For upperclassmen, it's a
great opportunity to see o 1 d
friends, make new ones.
by Jack Campbell
A five man team of specialized
laymen will be in charge of chapel
from Sept. 22-26 for Deeper Life
Week.
According to pastor Lawson this
year's special services will be gear-ed
to a different level than in the
past. It has been tradition to bring
in an evangelist or speaker and
let him present his ideas of what
Christianity is all about or to
delve into some basic concepts.
However, the men to speak this
year are headed by a research
physicist from Stanford Dr. Lam-bert
Dolphin. Dr. Dolphin is well
known on the west coast as a
speaker for men's groups. Pastor
The main emphasis this year will
not be on the chapel services but
on informal discussion groups in
dorms and classrooms. These dis-cussions
will be led by Dr. Dolphin
and his associates, who include Ted Next week's chapel schedule will
Wise, "hippie convert" from the not be one to miss for any reason.
West Coast, Bill McKenzie, a land Also remember that these men
developer from Texas, Mr. George have come for us and it is not
Alban, a business man from San often that such an all-star cast is
Diego, and Ron Kline, Dean of available. If you see one of them
Men at Azuza-Pacific college in running around, ask him to take
Southern California. five and rap a while.
WBCS broadcasting
resumes Wednesday
Bethel's radio station plans to Along with the regular news de-resume
broadcasting Wednesday partment, two mobile units will
morning, September 24, at 6:30 be added in order to more effec-
A.M. to kick off the 1969-70 school tively cover the news in the Bethel
year. The broadcast day will run area.
from 6:30 A.M. until 12 midnight,
Monday through Friday, and from
9 A.M. until 9 P.M. Saturday. WBCS
is located at 1050 KC. (AM)
The new year will also briig a
new type of programming, design-ed
to entertain and stimulate. Mu-sic
will range from semi-classical The station will be constantly
to light rock. Also included will be receptive to any suggestions stu-various
discussions, debates, and dents may have. Contact Mark
other talk shows. Kinksbeck or call WBCS.
Lawson added that Dr. Dolphin "These men are coming, not as
has "experimented with LSD" on authorities with answers, but ra-a
personal level and has written ther emphasizing communication
a book called "The Journey In- and exchange of ideas," Lawson
ward." stressed. They hope to do this
even more so by lodging in Edgren
in the rooms of the R.A.'s. Pastor
Lawson related further that the
men were taking their own va-cation
time to be with us.
Admissions innovates with recruitment plans
The sports department will be
broadcasting all Bethel basketball
games this year. Along with this,
a short sports summary will be
presented in conjunction with the
news.
'My Fair Lady' banquet theme
promotes big-little sis Friendship
The fact that Admissions and
Financial Aids now resides at 1540
North Snelling is hardly news, but
the total implication of the move
is not evident in a simple state-ment
of fact.
Mr. James Bragg, former finan-cial
aids advisor, present head of
the new consolidated departments
of Financial Aids and Admissions
related that the reason for merg-ing
the two was an attempt to
regroup functions that are more
closely related. Bragg expressed the
hope that through the consolida-tion,
his department would find
it easier to "keep in touch with
students after they arrived at Beth-el."
This wish to remain in contact
with students after their arrival
on campus is part of a larger at-tempt
to update Bethel's recruiting
methods. Bragg stated that he
wanted to find out whether the
students felt that they had receiv-ed
a realistic picture of Bethel
before they came.
"Many students are recruited by
their pastors or alumni," Bragg
said, and do not receive an up-to-date
account of what Bethel is real-ly
like. The college changes from
year to year so that even a grad-uate
of two years ago would not
be able to accurately relate what
Bethel is."
To correct this situation, the
department is coordinating its ef-forts
to update the materials which
are mailed out. It is working with
alumni in sponsoring Focus on
Bethel programs in Conference
churches.
Bragg stated that up until Feb-ruary
1, 1969, when Bob Crandall
was added to the admissions office
staff, the recruiting had been left
mainly to alumni and Conference
pastors. "We have benefitted from
an unusually loyal alumni." Bragg
said, telling of another area col-lege
which had four recruiters and
had recruited only fifty more stu-dents
than Bethel.
In spite of the alumni, however,
the number of applications was
65 behind that of the year before
when Crandall came to the office.
The 1969 enrollment ended up
being higher than ever.
Bragg also mentioned that Beth-el
was planning to change its at-titude
towards junior colleges,
viewing them more as a feeder
system than a threat. Although
Bethel's retention rate is higher
than the national average, the di-rector
of Financial aids and Admis-sions
sees this as an area in
need of improvement also.
"My Fair Lady" is the theme of
the Big-little sis banquet to be
held Tues. the 23rd in Dayton's
Sky Room. The purpose of the
banquet, according to one of the
organisers of the banquet, Sharron
Eisfeld, is "to promote and
strengthen relations between Beth-el
women".
Tickets are on sale until 3:30
Tues. at $3.50 per ticket. The big
and little sis's will sit together at
the banquet. Big sis's are re-sponsible
for seeing that their
little sis gets to the banquet and
back safely. Cars and buses will
leave from Bodien between 5:00
and 5:15.
Entertainment will be provided
by Carmen Sheppard and Miss
Mary Fall. A short speech will be
given by Sharron Eisfeld.
Others that have worked with
the banquet are Cheryl Cue, Bon-nie
Craft, Karen Rodberg, P a t
Chase, Bev Grant, Lois Rahn and
Dean Starr.
Come to the banquet. Big sis's
bring your little sis and enjoy
yourself.
`Turn-on Night' oversell turns many off
by Dave Greener and Joey Healy
Time Magazine covered the Con-gress.
Other national magazines
were there. And, amidst hundreds
of young people at last Friday
night's "Turn On," were two repre-sentatives
of Bethel's own Clarion.
That the buses to the event
were overcrowded is obvious un-derstatement.
But the packed con-ditions
of the two vehicles was
far surpassed by the crowd of
people waiting to get into the
Minneapolis Armory for the ev-ening
program. Over ten thou-sand
people crowded their way
into the building but another eight
thousand-plus could not be ac-comodated.
These eight thousand
were sent instead to the Auditor-ium
Convention Center, a f e w
blocks away. The contingent from
Bethel's second bus numbered a-mong
these not over-happy wan-derers.
A video setup awaited people
as they made their way into the
Auditorium. The screen was not
over-large, the sound was not over-loud,
and the video itself could
have been improved. All this for
hundreds of young people who
had hoped to see a "live" program.
About 10:30 it was announced
over the video that there would be
an attempt to send some of the
live performers to the Auditorium.
This announcement, of course, was
applauded by the audience. Most
of them were not enthused about
the prior arrangements.
"I'm extremely disappointed,"
said one young person. "There
was too little planning." As an-other
put it, "I think they
shouldn't have sold tickets for peo-ple
they didn't have room for.
I'm not horribly disappointed, but
some of the kids are. Yes, I'm going
to get my money back!"
Similar disappointment and/or
boredom was manifest in t h e
crowd. A few paper airplanes fil-tered
to the floor. Applause seemed
unnaturally, loud; it was perhaps
sounded less in appreciation than
for other reasons. In some quarters
there was disgust and even a little
Members of the rock group 'Sun' practice for 'Moods' cont'd on page 3
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
MEW
Page 2
the CLAROIN Friday, September 19, 1969
Lundquist report causes
optimism, puzzlement
Editor's Note: When I returned to school late this summer,
I ran into an old friend who suggested that I get and read a copy
of the Annual Report of the President. The report left me optimistic
but puzzled.
The President built a beautiful case for the "'youth revolt in
America". "The youth revolt of our day," he stated, "is a protest against
the dehumanization of man in a world of science . . . It is a protest
against the conquest of new worlds without resolving the problems
of the old one . . . It is raised not only against the technological
machine, but against the political machine, the military machine, the
industrial machine, the educational machine, the ecclesiastical machine.
The youth revolt," he stated, "is part of a world wide social revolution."
The president also said that although there had not been a single
riot on an evangelical campus last year that this fact did not mean "the
absence of keen feelings" but was due in part to selective admissions
and the Christian graces of our students. In fact, "It is only right that
thoughtful Christian youth be sensitive to these issues even more than
other people."
"The notes I hear," he continued, "are the insistence that every
human being is a person of importance and worth; that material
security ought not have the highest priority in life; that love ought
to characterize all of our interpersonal relationships; that right ideals
are worth suffering for; that honesty should characterize our actions;
that unconventional methods may open exciting new doors into the
future; and that whatever ought to be done ought to be done now.
"It is at this point that Christians have something in common with
the youth of the revolt movement. These ideals have been held by
Christians for centuries but sometimes have been lost to sight. Sud-denly
they are being sounded dramatically in a variety of strange places."
Later in his address the President lists eight general principles
by which Christian youth and students at Bethel should guide their
behavior. "The application of these principles has led to the identifica-tion
of some social practices which are viewed as detrimental to the
common good at Bethel. I might indicate that violation of these social
standards at Bethel usually results in appropriate disciplinary action."
(And I might add that he is right.)
If the youth revolt is a world wide social revolution, and the
violation of social standards is followed by appropriate disciplinary
action, it is reasonable to doubt whether the social revolution defended
by the president will ever come out of the shadows on evangelical cam-puses.
Social change and legalistic social standards constitute incompatible
goals.
Artist Series
tickets on sale
Tickets for several interesting
artist series in the Twin Cities
area are available at the present
time. Although 'most of the series
tickets are expensive, some of them
are reasonable. The concerts them-selves
promise to be of good quali-ty.
Two particularly promising ser-ies
— as far as high quality, rea-sonable
cost, and close location are
concerned — are the St. Paul Ser-ies
and the "Explorations 70" Ser-ies.
The St. Paul Series, sponsored
by the full Minnesota Orchestra,
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski director,
occur Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. at
the College of St. Catherine Fine
Arts Center. A ticket series for
the balcony is $20 or $28 for 10
concerts consisting of primarily
classical music.
"Explorations 70", a series of
five concerts for people with ad-venturous
tastes in music, will be
presented by the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra at the Janet Wallace
Fine Arts Center on the Macalester
College campus. The series, sched-uled
for Saturday evenings at 8:30
p.m., will open on October 18.
The other four concerts will be
presented Dec. 20, Jan. 3, Feb. 28
and April 4.
The concerts will feature works
by at least a dozen twentieth cen-tury
composers, including three
compositions specially commission-ed
by the Chamber Orchestra.
Tickets for this contemporary ser-ious
music series are priced at
$16 and $11.
If you'd like to attend these or
other concert series but the prices
seem a little steep, find another
culturally minded person who
would split the cost of a series
with you. It's worth it.
For further information on tick-ets
contact Mr. Whitinger in the
Music Office.
but nothing will
happen untilwe
pause to flame'
by Dave Shupe
Some days ago, I asked Pat if
I could write again about the
"Bethel College scene." After half-baking
many articles of my own,
I discovered that what I wished
to say had been' said already. and
better — if not perfectly — by a
contemporary poet, William Staf-ford.
NEAR
Talking along in this not quite
prose way
we all know it is not quite prose
we speak,
and it is time to notice this
intolerable snow
innumerably touching, before we
sink.
It is time to notice, I say, the
freezing snow
hesitating toward us from other's
grey heaven;
listen—it is falling not quite
silently
and under it still you and I are
walking.
Maybe there are trumpets in the
houses we pass
and a redbird watching from an
evergreen—
but nothing will happen until we
pause
to flame what we know, before any
signal's given.
the white man has done to rob
the black of his dignity and sense
of identity.
We as Christians have something
to learn from the hips and the
blacks. Something we should have
been spreading around a long, long
time ago. That is soul, man, soul.
The importance and ecstacy of now.
The utter sense of joy and exhilara-tion
that comes from being able to
transcend our own sordid natures
and this world's sordid reality
through Christ's love and involve-ment
in us and our love and in-volvement
in other people.
Evangelicals are unfortunately
stereotyped by "the world" as be-ing
bigoted, boring, straight-laced
sourpusses. I must say the descrip- .
tion does apply to more "Chris-tians"
than I'd like to admit.
Christ came that we might have
life, and have it more abundantly.
Do you realize what this means?
Are you living, being, experiencing
up to your potential? We have the
key to the most fullfilling and re-warding
life. Aren't we squander-ing
it by consciously or subcon-sciously
limiting ourselves to the
antedated and sterilized forms of
worship, conventional forms of
dress, hollow forms of greeting
and communication? What a pity
and what a waste to have a staid
and stereotyped form of life with
no room for spontenaity and crea-tivity.
Think and feel. Feel and think.
Interlocked and vital for life. Ne-glect
leads to death.
Begin to live your vision.
Marjorie Rusche
fax
Eax, the Old English word for axis, is the name of a new column
that will appear weekly in the Clarion. The focus for this column will be
the problems, both foreign and domestic, that face our nation and our
society. Eax, to be more precise, will be a presentation of facts that
are vital to understanding such complex problems as the Vietnam war,
poverty, racism, crime, and unemployment.
These problems, and many others are the subject of much discussion
in contemporary America. They cry out for solution. But the bulk of
adult Americans today are complacent and even a bit defensive about
the status quo.
It is particularly important that the college-educated be prepared
to think in terms of solutions to the problems that face us. Today the
college-educated segment of our society is the fastest growing portion
of our population. But a college degree does not assure a concern in
the future of our society and nation. We must learn to put aside apathy
and the false security of complacency in order to understand the
problems of America.
This, then, is the purpose of Eax: to inform and stimulate thought
that will build the potential to solve problems. Americans can no
longer "let the government do it." They must become full partners with
their leaders as they meet and seek to solve the problems that loom larger
every day.
The growth of racism in America
Race riots are the most frightening outgrowth of racism to the
middle class American. This is perhaps true because riots threaten
the sanctity of private property — the idol of the American property
owner. But such riots are not racist themselves. They are the predictable
expression of the hatred bred in Blacks by that towering monster—
White Racism.
Ever since the first boatload of Blacks arrived in Jamestown in
1619, an attitude has grown in this country. That attitude, the "basic
inferiority" of the Negro, was a gradual product of various factors,
economic and others.
There was indeed a need for cheap labor in the young tobacco
industry of the Virginia Colony. The most desirable labor source was
Africa. The Negro was able to work long hours in the hot sun due to
his conditioning in the tropics. Without Black labor the colony could
not grow its cash crop, tobacco, which meant that the colony would fail
and probably have to withdraw to England. Though it is not certain
that the first shipload of Blacks came as slaves, it is known that within
a few years slaveholding was widespread in Virginia.
In later years the addition of cotton to American agricultural products
brought an increased demand for slaves.
At this point, over a century before the nation began to press for
its independence from England, white racism had its start. The Negro
and slavery were essential to Southern Agriculture. In search of a moral
justification for slaveholding, Southern landowners began the philoso-phy
of White Supremacy. They envisaged themselves as saving the
Blacks from the bleak existence of African tribesmen. White society,
and white man, himself, was held superior to Blacks.
The actual behavior of slaveowners was not universally bad. Some
owners treated their slaves rather as employees. But racism had gained
its foothold in the white mentality. In the process of socialization,
children learned to hold Blacks in low esteem, even to hate or fear them.
Even after the Civil War the attitude of racism prevailed. In the
South this was mixed with bitterness and despair. Even after the
instrument that degraded the Blacks had been destroyed, the racist
attitude it generated continued and hardened in both the North and
South.
The effort to defeat racism is a war in the hearts and minds of
men. It is a much more difficult and significant war than the one that
split this nation over a century ago. Today, one hundred and four years
after Appomattox, the Black American is still not a full citizen.
The National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, in its report
to the President and the American People held white racism as the
underlying cause of Black rioting. The next article in this series on
racism deals with the extend of racism in America today.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor-in-chief Pat Faxon
News Editor Marjorie Rusche
Sports Editor Wally Borner
Copy Editor Tony Magnuson
Layout Editor Sue Bonstrom
Proofreader Karen Rodberg
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Photographer Ray Smith
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
To the editor—
I, along with many others, was
excited over Dean Olson's speech
in chapel Sept. 12; his professed
concern and desire for renewal of
the mind both individually and
communally. How it needed to be
said — the vision of the Holy Spirit
as a quickening flame sending
sparks of intellectual awareness
and vitality throughout a whole
college community — particularly
the Bethel College community.
Agreed. It is absolutely essential
that an educated individual know
how to think, 'be it analytically,
critically, or creatively. We need
this tremendous desire to keep
not apace but ahead of what's
happening, we are burdened and
blessed with the moral responsi-bility
to provide leadership in the
still-more-turbulent times to come.
However, a truly educated man
or woman not only thinks, he or
she feels, experiences, is. The art
of being must be just as carefully
developed as the art of thinking.
Indeed, it's more difficult.
"Being" is the thing that the
"hippie" culture focuses on. Be
yourself. Do your thing. Groove
with the elements — and the
chemicals. Turned off by the plas-ticity,
sterility, and conformity of
American life, "hippies" turn on
to love, giving, sharing, the experi-ence
of now. The whole emphasis
is to find yourself in and through
other people.
The blacks are developing a
sense of brotherhood, soul, group
solidarity — which is a tremendous
accomplishment considering what
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Festival Choir
begins practice
40. Friday, September 19, 1969
the CLARION Page 3
‘Tum-on' oversell
Although not all of these people were in the original cast,
the above reenactment resembles the scene last Friday nite
when over 5 score Bethelites turned out for 'Turn-on.'
Rehearsals for the biggest mu-sical
events of the semester, Fes-tival
of Christmas, began Thursday.
The specific group practicing was
the Festival Choir, which consists
of the Womens' Choir, Male Chor-us,
College Choir, and other staff,
faculty, and students interested in
participating.
You can still audition if you are
interested in participating in Fes-tival
Choir. Mr. Whitinger, located
in the lower level of the Colegle
Building, is in charge of the audi-tions.
The Festival of Christmas will
be held Dec. 12th, 13th, and 14th
in the Fieldhouse. The program
will be announced at a later date.
by Dave Greener
Student publications at Bethel,
were recently bolstered by the ap-pointment
of an advisor whose
credentials are numerous.
Mark Olson, a second-year stu-dent
at Bethel Seminary has as-sumed
the task of "Advisor to
Student Publications" for t h e
school year 1969-70. In this posi-tion,
it will be Olson's job to
fulfill such functions as making
suggestions and having discussions
with publications editors, evaluat-ing
their staffs' work, and perhaps
conducting workshops with staff
members.
summers as an editorial assistant
for Harvest Publications and cur-rently
he is editor of the Bethel
Seminary newspaper, Diakrisis. He
tentatively plans graduate work in
Christian Journalism after his grad-uation
from Seminary.
Mark feels that "publications
at Bethel have been fairly good—
particularly the Clarion," although
he adds that he thinks "there
could be further improvements."
Although he sees his role as
purely advisory—not as a worker
or as an editor — Olson says he
"would like to see the Spire and
the Clarion have a more important
place on the campus." As he says,
"I think that well-produced publi-cations
can add significantly to
the overall quality of the campus
life."
As for the Clarion in particular,
it is Olson's hope that "the Clarion
could have a wider-ranging, more
penetrating news coverage as well
as careful editorial comment on
issues significant to the students."
While attempting to achieve
such goals and going to Seminary
Mark will have an additional re-sponsibilty
this school year. As of
this summer, he is a newlywed.
Mark and the new Mrs. Olson
reside at the Seminary Apartments
in Arden Hills.
from page 1
anger. And why shouldn't there
be all of these phenomena?
As a pastor who had brought
young people from Eden Prairie
said, ". . . Poor arrangements were
made. The whole thing should have
been in the auditorium, instead of
bothering with the armory. (note:
this would have presented prob-lems
too.) I'm very disappointed.
But they are trying to deal with
the problem; this is much appre-ciated,
of course."
Why had there been an oversell?
"We couldn't ask young people
to come into town to buy all the
tickets," said Dr. Victor Nelson,
executive secretary of the Con-gress.
"We can't release the exact
number of tickets, because then
there is a possibility of an under-sell."
As Reverend Paul Fryhling,
Chairman of the Executive Com-mittee
revealed, We distributed
tickets through 200 youth groups.
We didn't want them to be short."
He explained that their purpose
wasn't to make money. They didn't
want to keep people out and had
gotten the largest facilities they
could. (The Met Sports Center was
"out" because of a Twins game at
the nearby Stadium.) Performers
had been at high school assemblies
around the Twin Cities, and Fryh-ling
himself "believed all the while
that it would sell out the place."
Yet it was a "one-shot" thing and
accurate predictions had not been
made. Fryhling did state that the
"audience had been great and very
cooperative." He also had praise
for the "great effort on the part
of these kids (the performers) "who
made their way from the Armory
to the Auditorium."
Among the first of these was the
Kinsfolk from Australia. Currently
operating with Billy Graham, they
usually perform in coffee houses
with an "intimate, more folky
setup."
Another group who was "live"
at the Auditorium was The Earth-rise
Singers, who were also at
Bethel last week.
Bill McKee, noted speaker for
high school assemblies, had words
for the youth at the Auditorium.
Spicing up his message with hu-mor,
McKee brought out the idea
of Christ as "The Answer" to many
of the youth's problems.
Finally Pat Boone arrived, but
without an orchestra. Pat didn't
sing, he did give his testimoy, say-ing
that until recently his career
had been one thing that had kept
him from a proper relationship
with God and that he had had to
be ready to give it up if that's
what God wanted.
During the evening — amidst
some confusion and much over-selling
— Dr. Nelson could say
about the program, "We think it
shows that young people are in-terested
in something that is in
their wavelength, communicates to
them, and has answers to some of
their problems."
Publications receive new advisor
Olson, who has had much experi-ence
with newspapers, yearbooks,
and other publications, graduated
from Wheaton College in 1968 with
a B.A. in the social sciences. At
Wheaton, he worked for the col-lege
newspaper for three years,
fulfilling various responsibilities,
including that of managing editor
his final year. He was also on the
yearbook staff for a year, during
which he served as editor-in-chief.
He took on similar positions during
high school days.
Olson, originally from the "Land
of Lincoln" (he is a native of Wau-kegon,
Illinois), is interested in
a career of Christian journalism.
He has already worked several
African Singers
coming on tour
From the Baptist Teacher Train-ing
College and Saker Baptist
College come nineteen students
who compose "The College Sing-ers"
of Cameroon. Missionary Don-ald
E. Witt, principal of Saker
Baptist College, is their director.
"The College Singers" will be
touring the United States and Can-ada
from Sept. 3 to Nov. 24.
They will begin in New York and
go across the northern part of the
United States, into Ontario, Cana-da,
the Dakotas, then to Winni-peg,
Manitoba, and across Canada
to Vancouver, British Columbia.
From there the Singers will travel
down the west coast to Southern
California, eastward into Texas and
up through Oklahoma and Kansas
and on to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and Cleveland, Ohio. In all, about
60 concerts will be given.
The College Singers will appear
in Minneapolis, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m.
They will be performing at the
First Baptist Church, 10th and Har-mon.
There is no admission fee,
but a free will offering will be
taken.
The group is sponsored by the
North American Baptist General
Conference, Forest Park, Illinois.
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Full Football squad
Scots hand Royals first loss
At the start of the game, Bethel
was optimistically looking for a
win. Macalester was supposed to
have a team weakened by the loss
of many seniors. Our boys, though
not numerous, had a great atti-tude
going for them.
Bethel received. This fact in it-self
was a confidence builder be-cause
we knew we had a good of-fense.
After three line smashes,
Fred Swedberg got a beautiful
punt down field, but the coverage
just wasn't there. Macalester ran
the punt back, got good field posi-tion
and took the ball in from
there. This was the story on the
first three Mac TD's.
After five Macalester touchdowns
and a few evtra points Bethel
got rolling. Murray Sitte opened
the game up, combining on some
fine pass plays with Don Brandsma,
Dave Pound, and finally John Pet-erson
for the score. Brandsma made
some fine catches even though
Mac's coverage was good.
On the extra point attempt, both
our blocking and kick failed. The
half ended with the score 33-6.
Since we had scored, things were
beginning to look up. Even though
Mac was stopping our backs, Barry
Anderson and Bob Olson, the pas-sing
game was moving nicely.
The second half started with the
fans expecting to see Bethel come
back with a vengeance in the
form of a passing attack. However,
Macalester had adjusted their pass
defense well, and we were stifled
there too. Then Sitte, the starting
quarterback, was injured (he had
40 stitches taken in his chin) and
replaced by back-up quarterback
Gary Hasselblad. Gary had not
played football since high school
four years ago and has only recent-ly
come out for football at Bethel.
He is a fine competitor with a
cool head, but was too inexperien-ced
to be effective. Even so, he
put in quite a performance, and
kept the fans on the edge of
their chairs with his scrambling
and passing. The game ended with
Bethel on the short end of the
score, 56-6.
Macalester was bigger, had a fine
quarterback, and some great backs.
The plain facts are that we got
beaten badly. There were a few
bright spots, however — Sitte's
passing, Peterson's, Pound's and
Brandsma's catching, Anderson's
running, and Jack Campbell's fists.
Also, when the newer members of
the team get more game experience
we can expect some great games
from a fine bunch of athletes.
Soccer team begins third season with a new coach
and a promising team.
Seddefte Symposium
Wally Borner
I wasn't there. I was moving into my new apartment so
I wasn't able to see the Bethel-Macalester football tilt. However,
I heard that Bethel teams have looked worse. But with 25
guys, what are you supposed to do. There were 33 on the team
at one time and some were lost to injuries and I sure hope
that some weren't lost due to a lack of intestinal fortitude.
Years ago Macalester had a similar problem. They used
to switch helmets whenever they sent in a substitution. They
had a game against Gustavus once when the Gusties made the
trip to St. Paul with 55 players. Mac had only 22. Can you
guess what the score was at half time? Macalester led 7-0.
I'm not knocking our team, but saying that we shouldn't
give up yet. The guys that are still playing had the opportunity
to call it quits when only 23 fellows showed up for football
camp. They could have said that it wouldn't be worth the
effort to go into games with the likes of Macalester and Hamline
and get dumped by some humiliating score.
More than ever, this handful of men needs to know that
the college community is behind them. Give them a pat on the
back or a word of encouragement and maybe they'll get so
much enthusiasm and adrenalin flowing, they'll come up with
a victory or two. The ball players will have to gut out the
season. I don't think it would be fair for us to sit back and
pretend that they don't eve*n *ex i*st .
Our home town Vikes did O.K. in the pre-season as they
rolled up five wins and one loss. I don't know how they did
it because everybody tells me they don't have a good quarter-back.
They don't have a quarterback like everybody said the
Twins didn't have a pitching staff.
Anyway, the Vikings will have a rough time. The central
division has four teams that are as close to even as you could
want. It looks like the winner will be lucky to end up with nine
wins. That winner will have to be the one getting the breaks.
It just can't be worth while to predict any finish, not even with
my Viking prejudice.
It should be an exciting year. Baltimore is so loaded with
charismatic stars that they should be able to hypnotize their
opponents into giving them the top spot. I don't think Joe
Namath would be able to stop them when the chips are really
down.
Baltimore didn't have too hard a time beating the Dallas
Cowboys last Sunday night. But Roger Staubach, filling in at
quarterback for the Cowboys, put on a scrambling exhibition
that would dilate the pupils of Fran Tarkenton. With that kind
of exhibition after being out of football for a while, it will be
interesting to see him when he gets a season or two under
his belt. * * *
Well sports fans, this is good-bye. It's come to the point
where I must turn over my mantle to someone else. I've greatly
appreciated your comments, criticism, and compliments.
Page 4 the CLARION
Friday, September 19, 1969
Soccer team travels to Owatonna
to begin season against Pillsbury
Murray Sitte received 40
day game with Macalester.
stitches as a result of Satur-
Bethel's fledgling soccer team
will be traveling to Owatonna Sat-urday
morning for a 10:00 game
against Pillsbury College. The Roy-als
will be out to avenge an open-ing
game loss to Pillsbury last
fall.
The squad has been practicing
regularly for two weeks and is in
considerably better condition than
last year. Also, a strong nucleus
from last year and some very ca-pable
freshmen should help build
the team into a strong, winning
squad.
Dr. Abraham has been coaching
and helping with the finer points
of the game as well as working on
the fundamentals with the less
experienced players.
The soccer teams offense will
center around Joe Goff, a fresh-man
from Massachusetts. Dan An-derson,
an M.K. from Brazil, will
team up with sophomore Lee Gran-lund
at the wing positions. Pete
Wicklund will be back as an inner
end. Transfer Jon Lewis will be
on at the inner position. All five
men are very experienced ball play-ers.
Dan Anderson must be spec-ially
noted for his dribbling skills.
Jon Nordstrom will be back in
the .gial. Supporting him at defense
will be fullback Jim Bussiere and
the versatile Jerry Jenfa. Ray
Smith will be center half with
veteran Tim Larson and freshman
Denny Peterson at the other half
back posts.
Doyle Musser and Wendell Wah-lin
are first year players and show
signs of becoming very capable
reserve players.
After the Pillsbury contest, the
team has upcoming engagements
with Bethany Lutheran of Mankato,
which will be played in St. Paul,
and with Trinity College which is
located in the Chicago area. Other
games will be scheduled with Mac-alester,
Concordia, Hamline, and
Augsburg.